Rhetorical education in America
By: Cheryl Glenn, Margaret Lyday, Wendy Sharer.
Contributors: Lyday, Margaret, 1946-; Sharer, Wendy B.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press; Brand: University Alabama Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.; Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States.
Description: xvi, 245 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life / William N. Denman; title: Is the history of classics a model for the future of English departments? / Thomas P. Miller; title: To get an education and teach my people : rhetoric for social change / Shirley Wilson Logan; title: Sew it seams : (a)mending civic rhetorics for our classrooms and for rhetorical history / Jill Swiencicki; title: Politics, identity, and the language of appalachia : James Watt Raine on "mountain speech and song" / Susan Kates; title: A "forgotten" location : a rhetorical curriculum in English education / Rich Lane; title: Parlor rhetoric and the performance of gender in postbellum America / Nan Johnson; title: Writing history on the landscape : the tour road at the Saratoga Battlefield as text / S. Michael Halloran; title: Transcendence at Yellowstone : educating a public in an uninhabitable place / Gregory Clark; title: (Re)turning to Aristotle : metaphor and the rhetorical education of students / Sherry Booth and Susan Frisbie; title: Cyberliteracy : toward a new rhetorical consciousness / Laura J. Gurak; title: Afterword / Wendy Sharer and Margaret Lyday.